Microsoft Tuesday Coverage for November 2009
Summary: Cisco Talos published an overview of six Microsoft advisories for November 2009, covering flaws in the Windows Web Services on Devices API (WSDAPI), the License Logging Service, the Windows kernel, the Active Directory NTDSA implementation, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Word. Most allow a remote attacker to execute code, while the NTDSA flaw allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service, and Talos released Snort rules with GID 3 and SIDs 16226 through 16241 to detect attacks against them.
Why it matters: Five of the six flaws let a remote attacker run code on an affected system, and the Excel advisory alone spans nine detection signatures - a reminder of how much of this month's patching load lands on desktop productivity software rather than the network edge.
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